Karl Kraus Quotes

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Karl Kraus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

Topics

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You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Jim Mattis

PeopleReadingYouThroughStay

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

Jochen Zeitz

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If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Andrew Shue

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I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Robert M. Gates

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Even if I am going to an event or a wedding, I try to just look effortless. The more effortless you look, the more chic you look.

Jeanne Damas

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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

Steve Albini

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Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Simon Sinek

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I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

Shimon Peres

ServicePublic ServiceMoralMust

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

Robert Casey

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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Mike Nichols

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My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

Monte Irvin

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Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Jojo Moyes

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